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Happy Friday friends! I've got the itch to do some spring cleaning 🌾🌷this weekend after fulfilling all of your rabbit and doll orders. Thanks for such a great repose to this @merrileeliddiardshop spring collection and to our @kokori_kids collaboration. There's still time to enter to win a doll and matching dress (see deets in the previous post). Oh and more bunnies will be restocked next week if you missed your favorite. 🐰😘. #thebanisterhouse

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It's been a magical Christmas full of French toast, a late night Christmas Eve full of mischief making (can't wait to share more on that!) and sewing a giant chewabacca doll until 4 am for my 10 year old, excited faces, games and puzzles, afternoon naps (for the very tired Mr and Mrs Claus), gingerbread stars and soon to be turkey dinner. Wishing you and yours the very merriest! #thebanisterhouse#mermagchristmas

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This year we decided to do the three wise men gift tradition (the one where kids receive only three gifts similar to the three wise men bringing three gifts for the Christ child). So we're doing one from Santa, one from mom and dad that could be from a store and one from mom and dad that is homemade. The kids have really gotten into it and were very careful and selective about what they asked Santa for. So with only three gifts per kid (we're still doing a few big family gifts and large stockings full of treasures) I really wanted the gifts to look and feel really amazing when they walked in on Christmas morning. So I came up with a few ideas such as this cardboard box snowman. Reindeer coming up next. ⛄️ #mermagchristmas#thebanisterhouse (house in progress)

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The kids and I cleaned #thebanisterhouse all morning...with a broken AC. 😓 so now They're ready for running through sprinklers all afternoon and i'm ready for a frozen Thai coconut bubble tea and a long nap 😴. #inmydreams

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Love this shot of Milla's side of the room which sits opposite of the boys beds (in previous pic. photo also from @oldhomelove's new book where you can see amazing old homes, including ours, still being loved after all these years). I'll miss this little bed when she grows out of it. Which is looking like it'll be sooner than I'd hoped 😭. Also I'm thinking wallpaper for this wall for the next room update?? 😍. #letthembelittle#forever#thebanisterhouse

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When purchasing a historic 1890's home we knew we'd have to sacrifice a bit on space in exchange for the charm. So all three kids sleep in the same room, Peter Pan nursery style, for the time being. This is the boys side of the room as it was when photographed by @chauntevaughn for @oldhomelove's newly released book, which is amazing and you need to get it. (Styled by @metacoleman_). The kids love being all together for the time being, like little sardines. I remember a family I met in NYC that had nine kids in a Manhattan apt. and whenever they visited other places they always ended up sleeping in the same room together as they couldn't handle that much space between them. I've always loved that story. Reminds me a bit of my childhood where someone was always rotating where they slept, sometimes halfway out the door. (A phenomenon my husband thinks hilarious). I so hope they have fond memories here together. (Milla's side is opposite this and can be seen in previous posts with her bed between a black wardrobe and yellow industrial metal toy shelf). I only wish it looked this clean all the time! 😜. #thebanisterhouse

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The kids have spring break this week and with all our travels this year we've opted to stay put. Which means all the kiddos at home all week 😬🙀. Time to Pull out our craft books, cooking jar and lots of prayers 🙏🏻 for mamma's sanity. 😜 Any ideas you love for a staycation? #thebanisterhouse#staycation

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Happy Friday friends! I've got the itch to do some spring cleaning 🌾🌷this weekend after fulfilling all of your rabbit and doll orders. Thanks for such a great repose to this @merrileeliddiardshop spring collection and to our @kokori_kids collaboration. There's still time to enter to win a doll and matching dress (see deets in the previous post). Oh and more bunnies will be restocked next week if you missed your favorite. 🐰😘. #thebanisterhouse

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😍Check out this sweet review for Don.😍 Repost from @mer_mag using @RepostRegramApp - Her new fav hiding spot ☺️| We recently had our bathroom shelves installed to match our vanity custom made by the talented wood worker @don_challis. (Scroll through to see more.) He does amaaaazing work and can basically create whatever you dream up! You should see his stair cases. I die. Makes me want to create a hidden upstairs nook just to commission him to make one for me. Or perhaps seriously elevate our treehouse dreams for this summer 😍. #somanyideas for #thebanisterhouse & #thebanisterhousebath

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Her new fav hiding spot ☺️| We recently had our bathroom shelves installed to match our vanity custom made by the talented wood worker @don_challis. (Scroll through to see more.) He does amaaaazing work and can basically create whatever you dream up! You should see his stair cases. I die. Makes me want to create a hidden upstairs nook just to commission him to make one for me. Or perhaps seriously elevate our treehouse dreams for this summer 😍. #somanyideas for #thebanisterhouse & #thebanisterhousebath

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I love it when these two play together. I thought with 4 years between them they wouldn't be as close as they are but they are best buds (....or sparring partners who are also great at pushing the others buttons 🙄. It's like hot or cold with these two - something else I didn't expect with the age gap). Every day about an hour after the boys have left for school she asks, "mom is it time for the brudders to come home?" Truly they can't live with or without each other. #thebanisterhouse